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Truck Deliberately Assaults AZ Cyclists, Caught on Video

2/26/2013

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Frm the Arizaona Daily Star.  A deliberate assualt on cyclists with the good fortune of catching it all on video.

A 57-year-old Tucson man was arrested for felony aggravated assault after
deliberately sideswiping a bicyclist who was leading more than a dozen others on
a training ride, a Tucson police official said.


Investigators found the suspect, Rodney Kinkade, after viewing footage of the
vehicle taken by a film crew accompanying the team on its ride Friday through
Tucson’s southeast side, Sgt. Chris Widmer, spokesman for the Tucson Police
Department, said.


The incident occurred before noon Friday as 15 to 20 bicyclists were riding
along East Valencia Road near East Old Vail Road. The group was eastbound on
Valencia when a man driving a 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora began to pass them. The
driver slowed near the front of the pack and screamed obscenities at the
bicyclists, Widmer said.


“As the vehicle reached the front of the pack it swerved to the right and
sideswiped the lead bicyclist, knocking him to the ground and causing other
bicyclists to fall as well,” Widmer said.


“The witnesses were mostly other bicyclists following in the pack. All stated
to the police that the suspect intentionally struck the two bicyclists.”


Two bicyclists were treated at the scene for injuries, he said.


Detectives with the aggravated assault unit used a photo of the car provided
by the bicycle team’s videographer to track the vehicle to the suspect’s home.
The car was impounded and Kinkade was arrested and booked into the Pima County
jail, Widmer said.

6 Comments
Snail’s pace reporting
2/26/2013 06:43:55 am

I guess the news just arrived on your telegraph equipment?

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/02/rider-diaries/tyler-wren-journal-a-first-hand-account-of-the-jamis-hit-and-run_275971

Time to shut down the blog!

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Mark
2/26/2013 09:56:34 am

The link takes the reader to a much more comprehensive article of the incident and is a good read. The article I posted, which appeared in today's AZ paper and was in fact sent to me via telegraph with a paper copy coming via snail mail.

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Slow day
2/26/2013 10:46:59 pm

Mark,
Oldsmobile never made a truck. They did make an SUV however the Aurora is a car.

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Useless info..
2/27/2013 01:05:15 am

I would tend to disagree: Oldsmobile made a Sport Utility Vehicle called the "Bravada" which was the same platform as the early/mid-90's Chevy Blazer/Jimmy

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More useless info
2/27/2013 03:06:54 am

Re read the post. I stated they made an SUV... SUV is not a truck.

The majority of trucks that usually pass me while I am on my bike are operated by overweight rednecks that like to blow diesel smoke on me as they pass.

totally useless
2/27/2013 11:22:44 pm

You mean the same rednecks with "Stop the war on coal: fire Obama" signs in their front yards who like to ride arounf on their coal-fired bicycles? ;)

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